Delivery-sheet holder



No. 607,034. Patented .Iuly I2', I898.

. J. W. GBUTHIEB.

DELIVERY SHEET HOLDER.

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J. W. GROTHIER.

DELIVERY SHEET HOLDER.

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EJNTTED STATES PATENT FFICE.

DELIVERY-SHEET HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 607,034, dated July 12, 1898.

Application filed DotOber 15, 1897- Serial No. 655,303- (llo model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN WEBESTER GRO- THIER, of Sacketts Harbor, in the county of Jefferson, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Reporting Apparatus, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to devices and apparatus used in making records of receipts of goods, wares, or merchandise.

My object is to provide an improved and novel means by which a person can readily make entries comprising a record and to preserve the records for future reference. It comprises a suitable case divided into parallel compartments-one to receive the recordblanks, which are held in position for use by a spring-actuated slide, and the other to receive the blanks as fast as the record is completed thereon, and also a suitable tablet to receive a list of names in alinement with spaces upon the blanks.

The whole device can be suspended from a a hook or laid upon a counter or desk. One of the many uses to which it has been applied is to record the weights of the quantities of milk left at a cheese factory by its patrons, and to that end such use only will be herein described. It is constructed as follows, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of the device. Fig. 2 is a top plan thereof. Fig. 3 is a crosssection on line 00 m. Fig. 4 is a vertical section on line y y. Fig. 5 is a like view on line z .2. Fig. 6 is a plan perspective of a weighttablet detached.

A is a suitable body or casing comprisinga front divided into spaces 2 3 4:, a back composed of a door 5, and a solid piece 6, suitable sides 7 8, and an intermediate partition 9, creating the compartments 10 and 11. I

The front space 2 is designed to hold a tablet a, containing a numbered list of names. The space 3 is open sufficiently to permit access to a record-strip of paper or other material 12, ruled and numbered to correspond with said tablet.

The space 4 is plain'and suitably hinged to constitute a door to open and close the compartment 11.

The door 5 opens and closes'the compartment 10, in which a follower 18 and spring 14: hold a quantity of record-strips in proper position. A rod or bar 15 divides the opening in the front into spaces for separate records on either side of it and also supports the strips centrally and longitudinally. Thus patron No. 1 delivers two hundred and forty pounds of milk, which is deposited in tank No. 1 and is recorded on the left-hand side of the bar 15, while Nos. 2 and 4 deliver six hundred and one hundred and ninety pounds, respectively, and so on, the total weights being recorded at the bottom and the date added. Then this record-strip is removed through a slit 16, Fig. 4E, and placed upon a pin 17, Fig. 5, in compartment 11 and retained for future reference.

The follower operates to feed a fresh record-strip into position each time one is removed. 7

Suitable fastenings 18 19 secure the respective doors.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1. The combination with a casing divided into compartments and doors therefor, of a tablet upon the front containing a list of patrons, spring-fed record-strips in the compartment, adjacent to said tablet to receive the record of the weights through a suitable opening, and means to retain said filled recordstrips in the other compartment.

2. The combination with a casing divided into compartments and doors therefor, of a tablet upon the front containing a list of patrons, a spring-actuated follower in one compartment, record strips fed thereby to an opening in the casing, adjacent to said tablet to permit records to be made upon said strips, means to remove the filled strips and to retain them in the other compartment.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 23d day of September, 1897.

JOHN WVEBESTER GROTHIER.

In presence of MORRIS S. LORD, JOHN PARKER. 

